Workers work a racket. - Workers with their "turkeys" are heading for the Grand Coulee on foot from all directions. They don't expect to land jobs right away. But they do expect to establish six months' residence in the counties before the main...

Irrigation can open up Empire. - Columbia basin project is able to sustain 25,000 families on land. - $100,000,000 income. - Hay, live stock, vegetables and vineyards are suggested as paying enterprises. - Building of a low dam or a high dam in the...

Irrigation can open up Empire. - Columbia basin project is able to sustain 25,000 families on land. - $100,000,000 income. - Hay, live stock, vegetables and vineyards are suggested as paying enterprises. - Building of a low dam or a high dam in the...

Open dam bids for main work. - June 18 will prove epochal day in history of Inland Empire. - To be near $40,000,000. - Event will bring contractors and material men to Spokane--Start work July 1. - June 18, 1934, is destined to go down in the...

Ace in the deck. - Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior in President Hoover's cabinet, declared the Columbia basin to be "the ace in the deck of American projects." Authorities agree it will have more far-reaching results in empire building...

Dam site area bustling spot. - Even preliminary work has turned silent region into noisy district. - Excavation is pushed. - These and core drilling furnish main activity--Bridge and railroad come next. - On July 16, 1933, while thousands looked...

Millions flow this way / by V. T. Tustin.The Grand Coulee power project is one of the tremendous importance to eastern Washington. Its potential possibilities are far reaching. It will cause millions of dollars to pour into our local trade...

Tractors speed up work. - Construction work at the Grand Coulee dam, the nation's greatest power dam project, has been speeded up materially by the three giant "caterpillar" Diesel tractors. The big machines have been operating 20 hours a day on...

Spokane comes into own / by Roy A. Redfield"Sweet are the uses of adversity." The big project that was just out of reach for a dozen years of prosperity became possible at last in the time of black depression. Here is food for thought and a...

Saving $15,000,000. - Decision to divide the power plant at the Grand Coulee dam and build portions on either side of the river will save $15,000,000 in rock excavation, it has been estimated. The two plants will be controlled from one switchboard...

$10,000 church for dam area. - Denominations cooperate in program to furnish community plant. - The home missions council of Washington, composed of the state executives of the larger denominations, have completed arrangements for a $10,000...

Greatest in United States / by Joseph Aspray For many years we have realized that the greatest need of the northwest has been utilization of the Columbia river for power and irrigation purposes. Progressive men have worked for years to bring...